I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (film)

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (French: Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part) is a French film directed by Arnaud Viard released in 2019[3] with an adapted screenplay from Anna Gavalda's homonymous collection of twelve short stories.[4][5][6][7]

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
Directed byArnaud Viard
Written byArnaud Viard in collaboration with Thomas Lilti, Emmanuel Courcol & Vincent Dietschy.
Produced byMarc-Benoît Créancier
Starring
CinematographyEmmanuel Soyer
Edited byVéronique Bruque
Music byClément Ducol
Production
companies
  • Easy Tiger
  • France 2 Cinéma
Distributed by
  • Orange studio (International)
  • UGC Distribution (France)
Release date
Languages
  • French
  • English
Budget$4.2 million [1]
Box office$3.4 million [2]

Plot

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Aurore celebrates her 70th birthday surrounded by her friends and four grown children: the eldest Jean-Pierre is the father of a family and wine representative, Juliette is a French teacher and dreams of career as a writer, Margaux is a freelance photographer, and Mathieu is single at 30 years old. Since the death of their father, Jean-Pierre naturally assumes the paternalistic and benevolent role with his siblings. One day, he is contacted by his old friend Héléna, a fashionable theater actress, who tells him terrible news.[8]

Cast

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Production

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Most of the filming took place in Fixin, in Côte-d'Or. Part of the shooting took place from September 3 to 7, 2018 in Dijon.[9][10]

Box office

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The film was first released in France on January 22, 2020, in 367 theaters and sold 27,040 tickets on opening day.[11] The first week ends with 212,027 tickets sold.[12] The second weekend saw attendance drop by 57.07% despite 22 additional theaters.[13] The film is entering its seventh week passed the bar of 450,000 tickets sold.[14]

References

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  1. ^ https://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=19814
  2. ^ https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt9151382/?ref_=bo_se_r_1
  3. ^ Lemercier, Fabien (19 August 2019). "All eyes are on the 2019 Valois d'Or at Angoulême". Cineuropa. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Je voudrais que Quelqu'un m'attende Quelque part (2020) de Arnaud Viard". Focus Cinéma (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  5. ^ "VIDÉO - Alice Taglioni et Arnaud Viard: "Le film a mis près de 10 ans à se faire"". www.rtl.fr (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Arnaud Viard starts shooting I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere". Cineuropa. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  7. ^ Atlantico.fr. ""Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part" Arnaud Viard amour tendresse". Atlantico.fr (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  8. ^ Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part de Arnaud Viard (2019), synopsis, casting, diffusions tv, photos, videos...- Télé-Loisirs (in French), retrieved 9 September 2021
  9. ^ "Fixin: Arnaud Viard, de retour sur ses terres". France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Côte-d'Or - Cinéma. Un long-métrage en tournage entre Fixin et Dijon". www.bienpublic.com (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  11. ^ "JP Box-Office - DaybyDay". jpbox-office.com. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  12. ^ "Je voudrais que quelqu\'un m\'attende quelque part (I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere) (2020) - JPBox-Office". jpbox-office.com. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  13. ^ "JPBoxOffice - Hebdo France - DU 29 Janvier AU 04 Février 2020". jpbox-office.com. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  14. ^ "JPBoxOffice - Hebdo France - DU 12 AU 18 Février 2020". jpbox-office.com. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
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